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Subject: Re: [PATCH] (2.5;v3) move LOG_BUF_SIZE to header/config
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"Randy.Dunlap" wrote:
> 
> Linus,
> 
> Patch applies to 2.5.52-bk3.
> 
> This makes LOG_BUF_LEN (actually its shift value) a configurable
> parameter.  It does this by adding a general/common config file
> that can use processor-related dependencies.  This new Kconfig file
> is located in linux/kernel/ and is included at the end of each
> arch/*/Kconfig file.
> 
> Modified to address comments from Christoph Hellwig, James Cloos,
> and Andrew Morton, who likes it.
> 

The reason I like it is that it adds $TOPDIR/kernel/Kconfig.  Several
times I've been confronted with the need to put exactly the same thing
into each and every arch/<arch>/Kconfig.  There doesn't seem to be a
single all-architectures "general stuff" place at present.